Being an island has often proved a health benefit in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. Indeed, after a year of the pandemic, virtually the only COVID-free countries are island states and territories. While both Australia and South Korea have fared well by global standards, their island provinces, Jeju and Tasmania done even better. The small island states of the South Pacific region leveraged their insularity by swiftly closing borders, tough quarantine, social distancing and public health measures when a pandemic was declared. Their marine moat contributed significantly to health security for these islands but at great cost to their fragile economies especially those with some dependence on tourism. Vaccines promise the opportunity to reopen borders to international commerce and traffic. However, the transition out of the pandemic will less swift and less secure than the initial dramatic first response. The apparent inevitability of COVID becoming an endemic disease will require ongoing public health measures as well as political decisions at the level of individual countries as when decide their pandemic measures can be relaxed. Travel bubbles are touted as a likely transitional stage for the global recovery but these have proved more aspirational than practical thus far. Post-COVID financial revitalisation will even more challenging for small island states. It is here that both Jeju and Tasmania can assist their national government in meeting the needs of the Pacific’s small island states. They have relevant island-adapted human and physical technologies that, if recognised and mobilised, could make appropriate niche recovery aid more effective.

For four calender years (1971-1974), daily observations of weather conditions (air temperature, humidity, wind speed, wind direction, cloud amount, fog, precipitation etc.) at six stations in the north western Pacific Ocean are used to calculate mean monthly values and to check extra-conditions. At Petropavlosk and Miko'skoe, where indicate the characteristics of modified continental climate, the temperature and humidity are high in summer, and Iow in winter. At A Dak and She Mya, where indicate the characteristics of warm current type maritime climate, humidity is high in all season and annual range of air temperature is nearly negligible. At Simusir and Vasi!' eva, where indicate the characteristics of cold current type maritime climate, humidity is high in all season and annual range of air temperature is 15℃. As dry cooling power is relatively high in winter, working condition on deck is bad. Most of fogs are advection fog in the area of cold current type climate in summer.

1977~76년에 부산수산대학의 오태산호를 사용하여 북서태평양의 소련 Kamchatka 반도와 Kurile열도 근해에서 해양 관측, 음향 측심 및 해류 조사를 실시한 자료를 해석하고, 해수유동과 해저지형과의 관련성 등에 관하여 검토하였다. Kamchaka 반도 동방의 대륙붕은 넓게 확장되어 그 폭은 약 75km에 달하고 그 경사는 완만하다(1~2。). 이 대륙붕은 Paramushir도 동방에서 폭이 좁아져서 약 36km가 되고 경사가 급해진다. Onekotan만 동쪽 약 20mile 해역에는 대륙붕이 조금 짤라져 해삼 모양의 솟은 곳이 있고, 그 단면은 평두해산과 비슷하다. Kurile열도 동방 Oyashio 해류 유역에서 직접 측류한 결과는 약 1kt로서 해류의 역학계산으로 얻은 유속 0.5~0.7kt 보다 조금 빨랐다. Oyashio 해류 동쪽 가장자리에는 강한 해류와 개속된 대소 규모의 좌선 및 우선 소용돌이가 줄지어 있다.